Here’s a simple project for your Halloween celebration. The other day while looking through our box of Halloween decorations, we noticed that the incandescent lamp in one of the jack-o’-lanterns was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person installs an LED lightbulb into light fixture - Kunlathida Petchuen/Getty Images Light Emitting Diode (LED) lightbulbs have ...

Halloween is coming and [Paulo] decided to make some flickering jack-o-lanterns by hijacking the flickering circuit of a cheap LED tea light to drive a much more powerful light! He has tons of old 12V ...

With summer here, it's possible you're going to need your lights a lot less during the day. However, this also means you might have your HVAC or other high-energy appliances working overtime. If these ...

First of all, apologies if this is not the appropriate forum for such a thing, but I didn't really think it appropriate to put anywhere else. In any case, I bought 2 30 light strings from the HEB up ...

To understand the technology associated with practical LED dimming we first have to look at the technology associated with triac-based incandescent lamp dimmers. The typical triac lamp dimmer circuit ...

LED lighting, and the potential that it brings, is moving to the forefront of residential and commercial lighting markets. However, to maximize the success and adoption of solid-state lighting for ...

The LM3445 from National Semiconductor enables a full 100:1 range of offline, uniform, flicker-free dimming for high-brightness LEDs with a conventional TRIAC forward or reverse phase-control wall ...